skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those have been part of the common language of city defense since at least Operation: Desert Storm in 1991, and in regular use for as long as sieges (and therefore cities) have been a thing.

One of the ways to win a war without winning a battle is to make winning so morally costly to your enemy that their own troops balk at the doing. Its not a super effective method, and usually fails (propaganda tends to win in that particular game of rock-paper-scissors), but it can certainly be effective as a delaying tactic, or as a method to damage your enemy's morale.

There have always been statespeople and military leaders who argue that human shields are unsporting, but the main pressures on military strategy are evolutionary, rather than ethical. Thus, if its horrific but it works, it must not be that horrific. More broadly, arms races typically amount to "we believe the other side has the technology to commit X atrocity. We therefore need the same ability to commit that atrocity, else we appear weak"
No downtown area in North America is full. Every city has vast swaths of underdeveloped land that can be turned into nice, new housing. Zoning should be changed so developers can make the call on what is profitable and not profitable, not NIMBY politicians or internet commentators.

As a side benefit, the new housing will relieve price pressure on existing, overpriced older housing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonication

How will cats feel about that high-pitched noise?
They've lied to Congress multiple times so Congress is using their power to make sure their concerns are addressed.
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Alien Versus Predator?
Looks like I was wrong. The Guardian article published four days ago reports two, not three.
And engineer your own bagel setting without buying a bagel model? Dream on.
I have seen some discussion about this. It's usually in the context of a divorce, converting one household into two households.

To answer your question about households with smaller numbers of people, it all depends on what you do outside of work and what's important to your life. For me, having a home office, home computer lab, gardening, astronomy, hiking, casual birdwatching, and turning pieces of wood and metal into sawdust and metal chips are all important and completely incompatible with apartment living. For my partner, having an art studio is incredibly important. Again, it is incompatible with apartment living.

Traffic and city noise are not good for me (they raise my blood pressure), which is kind of why I am okay with losing my hearing. I can't hear it as much as my partner can, and I'm not sure I want to get hearing aids. I would've moved farther away from the city, but my partner works deep in Cambridge, Mass., and we went as far as she could stand the commute.
> it's just plainly more efficient to have dense population centers.

Sure, if we put on blinders so we only look at economic effects.

Socially I estimate the value of me not living too close to anyone else at somewhere between $500,000 - $2,000,000 USD.
Sure, but a good employee is not just a good programmer. You don't want an obsessive, you want someone who is stable and has other things going on in his life.
How convenient :)
No, they have a "battery budget". It the CPU power draw goes down that means the budget goes up and you can spend it on other things, like a nicer display or some other feature.

When you say "up to 10 hours" most people will think "oh nice that's an entire day" and be fine with it. It's what they're used to.

Turning that into 12 hours might be possible but are the tradeoffs worth it? Will enough people buy the device because of the +2 hour battery life? Can you market that effectively? Or will putting in a nicer fancy display cause more people to buy it?

We'll never get significant battery life improvements because of this, sadly.
Or… use one of the existing cross platform toolkits that have existed for decades. Text Editors, traditionally, did not require shaders to run or be performant, and not require entire systems worth of RAM.
The writing was on the wall with the introduction of Swift, IMO. Since then it's been over complicating the iPad and dumbing down the macOS interfaces to attain this goal. So much wasted touch/negative space in macOS since Catalina to compensate for fingers and adapative interfaces; so many hidden menus and long taps squirreled away in iOS.
The whole iPad is basically one chip so... the media engine is in the M4. AFAIK it's a top-level core not part of the GPU but Marcan could correct me.
Start by cleaning the filters
I have an heuristic for this. If I can find the book in an airport, it has the filler you mention. Textbooks are another item where this usually does not happen.

How we sleep, the secret to business blabla, consulting tricks, the life of tech visionary, or lifehacks for the 21st century: filler,filler, filler.
There's MIRV, so depends what you mean by "these things".

But also some among these 3750 are in subs, and bombers.

And as for "100 would do": Well, if they all hit their targets, maybe. But part of the reason for overkill is so that even a sneak attack that's 90% successful should trigger MAD. Well, I say "should", but more like that's the cold logical deterrence rationale.
I've heard so many good things about lisp, but unfortunately I've never had a chance to learn it.

Can you share a bit on why you love it
There is also memory compression and their insane swap speed due to SoC memory and ssd
This was years ago (pre-covid) but what I remember was a mix of:

- "Oh, you're using a laptop"
- "Do you really need to use that?"
- "Just write it on the whiteboard"
- "It would be easier to see on the whiteboard"

They also didn't give me a mouse, so using the trackpad was slow.

What I hate most about whiteboards is how you can't easily insert lines so you have to leave lots of space. I tend to write code like an onion rather than top down.
I think parking lots are the ideal place for large scale solar. They have already destroyed the local environment, and anything shading black asphalt will be an improvement for local temperature.

Other plusses are that they are close to electric demand (business, homes, and EVs), and people prefer to park in shade.

The downside is there's no existing structure to install the panels, so that's more steel used to mount the panels.
> Sure, and they were widely criticized for this. Again, the assertion I was responding to is that Apple does this ”laughably” more than competitors.

FWIW: the language upthread was that it was laughable to say Apple was the most honest. And I stand by that.
Indeed, but tradition is not necessarily the only way to have safe policies. We have many more advanced escape systems that work incredibly well these days. I’m sure there are alternative escape technologies that don’t involve windows in a skyscraper in 2024.
Oh, I see. There's no literal reason why that discussion can't take place over a laptop screen, either. So, I suppose it more or less does boil down to "you are making us do our job differently from how we are used to, and we don't like it." That is supremely silly.
Sounds like a dud $10 Mijia 1A with open button on lid - their lowest end model. Others have button on handle.

I don't know any Xiaomi product with wide spread fitment issues, they're value engineered, but well assembled low-medium end consumer goods. Nice plastic, in Xiaomi white or black, occasionally orange accents. As well assembled as any western kit. Most of their kitchen appliance is some sort of knob and plastic covered button, very easy to clean/maintain.

>consistent design language

Less is more Dieter Ram, white/black, simple geometry with rounded edges, round oled display etc. It's very consistent. Especially considering they make nearly everything, from fridges, to cooktops, washing/dryer, to ACs, heaters, vacuums etc.

Ultimately, they look nice, do the thing they do, for fraction of the price, i.e. affordable / actually make decent design available to masses. Bring "design" to low/medium income markets. Which is core to OG ethos/vision of modernism/functionalism.
> In stark contrast to most GNU/*nix tools

That's ridiculous! The only invisible things in Emacs deserve to be so. For everything else, there is a menu bar which is also visible in terminal `emacs -nw` mode. Just add `(xterm-mouse-mode t)` to ~/.emacs to make sure the mouse works properly. Very pointy, very clicky, and nice pretty menus that tell you the shortcut of each function.
I was thinking instead you could remove a long rectangle from the middle of each floor, so that the two remaining sides could have windows facing each other.

If you swapped the orientation of the removed rectangle on each floor, it would look rather like a Jenga tower with the middle block pushed out on each level.

In any case, the central problem (but maybe required step) of all these kinds of solutions is going to be losing 50% or so of the potential floorspace.
If you care a lot about Linux support, Lapce is a very promising alternative. Much like Zed, it also is written in Rust with native GPU-based rendering and a shared focus on enabling integration with modern IDE technologies such as LSP servers, tree-sitter parsers and DAP for debugging.
> getting 10x workers at night is not very feasible.

You can get as many workers as you need, for a price.

For example, got a 2 day window at Christmas to perform a rail upgrade? And overrunning on time costs thousands of pounds per minute? Just show up with a large workforce and lots of spare parts and equipment.

The downside is you end up paying for things like having a couple of diesel mechanics on site just in case a backhoe breaks down. Maybe none of your backhoes broke down, and you paid for 2 guys times 48 hours times 3x their normal hourly rate, just to sit in their truck.

Of course, overnight work does tend to get noise complaints from locals - no amount of workers will solve that!
justifying aggression? imagine the Paiute Indians started firing into the Vegas strip.
The agreement with the landlord consists of the lease/rental contract, the law, and other unspoken expectations of both parties.

Some times more things are spelled out (lease contracts that have built-in price changes; for example I've seen ones that basically auto-renew every year, with an optional x% increase on the landlord's side, which usually but not always is taken), sometimes they aren't.

You can even agree to things that aren't allowed by law; both sides just never bother reporting it (this is one of those unwritten things you find from time to time).

Usually a tenant "unilaterally changing the agreement" is just falling back on the tenant protection laws to their advantage. Savvy landlords know the laws and how to work with them, inexperienced landlords get caught out (often because all the tenants before have never used them).
A thousand times this. I distinctly recall going to a Columbia store to get a new basic fleece jacket years ago and all they had were jackets with that stupid breast zipper pocket which I didn't want. It clearly seemed like the new style as anything without it was nowhere to be found on the floor.

I begged the sales person who dug one up in a box in the back room without the pocket.

My guess is slapping an extra pocket on there let them justify increasing the cost and margins because "you're getting more!"
There is also the fact that we currently have an iPhone generation where only the Pro models got updated to chips on TSMC 3nm.

The next iPhone generation is said to be a return to form with all models using the same SOC on the revised version of the 3nm node.

> Code from the operating system also indicates that the entire iPhone 16 range will use a new system-on-chip – t8140 – Tahiti, which is what Apple calls the A18 chip internally. The A18 chip is referenced in relation to the base model iPhone 16 and 16 Plus (known collectively as D4y within Apple) as well as the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max (referred to as D9x internally)

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/20/ios-18-code-four-new-ip...
Oh certainly, their two greatest motivations to build things that way are:

1. Make devices thinner and sleeker

2. Capture value from power users who would otherwise buy the base model and upgrade it themselves

But that's probably how they justify it as not environmentally harmful.
I use the "launch ramp" technique. Ask a series of prompts (instead of a single prompt with a long answer). Explain the prompts that will get progressively more complex, aka the ramp will gradually get steeper and get very steep later. I can stop the interview quickly if the candidate can not find simple mistakes and how to remedy them. I can also jump ahead to complex issues to engage highly qualified candidates.
People who have cashed out equity in their home also have an interest in the price of their home going up.
Downvoting this won't improve Go's performance :)
How on earth is MS the “least bad” in the wake of this massive anti-competitive practice of just buying up studios?
Any other language can implement the same conventions, and those conventions aren't specified in the C standard but really platform specific.
Thanks for clarifying.

> although it's a bit of a niche use case (not for HN of course, but for the general audience it is)

No doubt about that. Safe to assume that 99% of your users will not know or care about this. That's why I want to thank you for supporting this advanced key management feature for those of us who want it. To me that's evidence that Proton Mail takes OpenPGP seriously.
Huh, so it begins.

This will have a massive impact on the passage of the RESTRICT and GUARD Acts
>tech is so fast moving

I recently meet a programmer in his 50s, still working on Cobol. Sure, you aren't gonna hire him, but do you think he has any worries about his job?
Understanding Postgres Database Schemas and the search_path
That's fair. The ancestral post's claim of "every six months" is still ludicrous, just not as cartoonishly so. It's not like Bethesda RPGs are licensed pro sports games or Assassin's Creed.
Expanding on this, I have an M2Pro (mini) & a tower w/GPU... but for daily driving the M2Pro idles at 15-35W whereas the tower idles at 160W.

Under full throttle/load, even though the M2Pro is rated as less-performant, it is only using 105W — the tower/GPU are >450W!
Legit made me chuckle
Sorry - should have been specific in top-level comment. This one: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/33
You can do lots of cool things with 9 million people and a ton of money.
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What exactly is an alternative way to hire good candidates that any of you think is better than coding interviews?
I'd argue it's still the same, there's just a tech accessibility difference between defense and offense. When they are equal, defense still tends to win out but it'll take a bit for the access to catch up.

The counter for drones will be the proliferation of CRAM/CIWS and APS. Currently there exists cheap, publicly available (and commonly heavily open sourced) tech stacks for drones but the same is not the case for CRAM/CIWS and APS. But fundamentally the systems that can effectively kill artillery shells, mortars shells, rockets, and missiles in flight will be able to kill drones as well. There are some differences (such as that drones tend to fly lower/slower) but fundamentally the tech applies the same.

And to be entirely honest this proliferation is almost entirely a software problem. Of course the existence of public hardware designs is important as well but getting effective sensor integration, detection, targeting, tracking, and response at a low enough latency will be bottlenecked by access to high quality domain specific software.
I went from a regular iPhone 11 to a 15 Pro Max, and when the screen is dim I can see it flicker, which is distracting and fatiguing to look at due to PWM rates being too low. OLED screens have plenty of pros, but aren't certainly without their cons.
I'm curious what makes you think the MBA is a more "full experience?"

The MBA is permanently affixed to its keyboard: so it can't easily be used for consumption (in bed, on the couch, etc.) The MBA also has no touch screen, and no stylus. The iPad can also ship with a built-in cellular radio. Now I'm carrying an extra tablet, plus an extra hotspot.

That sure sounds like a lot of compromises to me. If I needed more performance I'd be stepping up to a MBP for the active cooling, which pushes us into a different price bracket anyways. If I needed more disk/memory bandwidth I wouldn't even be considering a portable in the first place. (More realistically: I would be using my portable to shell into a more powerful box, and an iPad Pro or even an iPad Air would do that just as well as any MacBook.)

If you need more external I/O, well, I'm not sure I buy that the iPad Pro is a serious compromise over the MBA. It has 40Gb/s of bandwidth and that's _a lot_ for the vast majority of use-cases. My main MBP already sits docked all day via a single thunderbolt cable.

The only reason I would actually choose an MBA over an iPad is that I'm a developer. I place strangely disproportionate value on things like an untrusted boot-chain, kernel extensions, and freedom.[1] I like having the flexibility to be able to bless and enroll my own bootable volumes. I want to be able to tinker with the system partition. I want to introspect the system when things go wrong. The iPad challenges these things by design.

I cannot emphasize this enough: _all of my friends would be lost trying to follow along with the preceding paragraph._ They would look at me like I had two heads. _The above desiderata are not at all representative of the average computer user today._ For most of what I do (media consumption and some content creation) the iPad Pro would do an excellent job, I'd argue better than the MBA. For everything else I do: "iPad Pro vs. MBA" is a false dichotomy, I would not be choosing either of those machines. I would buy a workstation-class device at a minimum.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
War Rooms and Peace Rooms
Only worked because armor was so dominant and anti armor wasn't there yet.
I'm still using joe on Linux (and macOS) 30 years later!
I loved discovering keyboard shortcuts for video games like Rogue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)
IIRC (it's been awhile) most office leases are for 5 years, or maybe 3.. I forget. Not sure if they'd have any stipulations to allow evictions in an instance like this.
TURN YOUR KEY CAPTAIN! Love Wargames for all it's goofy hacker nonsense.
This is why landlords want to rent to tenants who have not been evicted before. With "good tenants gone bad" these things work, but if you regularly rent to bad tenants, then it's going to happen all the time (at which point you're implementing other things to protect yourself and recoup the costs, or selling and going home).
I'm scoping this out, and was able to install espeak-ng on Mac using Homebrew... but I'm not understanding how to get quality voices loaded up (the default voice it installed is quite robotic sounding). What's the path to, for example - a high quality British voice...?
Personally, I'm in the opposite camp of urbanite types. I grew up rurally and have no desire to go back to hour-long trips to get groceries, no commercial services existing after 8PM and no social events to attend without taking half a day between reaching them and coming home.

Not to mention the degraded infrastructure (be it power, internet, roads or otherwise).

Sub/urban life, although noisy and less peaceful, is just far more convenient for an active adult. I'd be happy to go back to the country when and if I ever get to retire.
Charlie Munger did it.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/business/ucsb-munger-hall/ind...

I know there is an HN thread.
I have an M3 for my personal laptop and an M2 for my work laptop. I get ~8 hours if I'm lucky on my work laptop, but I have attributed most of that battery loss to all the "protection" software they put on my work laptop that is always showing up under the "Apps Using Significant Power" category in the battery dropdown.

I can have my laptop with nothing on screen, and the battery still points to TrendMicro and others as the cause of heavy battery drain while my laptop seemingly idles.

I recently upgraded my personal laptop to the M3 MacBook pro and the difference is astonishing. I almost never use it plugged in because I genuinely get close to that 20 hour reported battery life. Last weekend I played a AAA Video Game through Xbox Cloud Gaming (awesome for mac gamers btw) and with essentially max graphics (rendered elsewhere and streamed to me of course), I got sucked into a game for like 5 hours and lost only 8% of my battery during that time, while playing a top tier video game! It really blew my mind. I also use GoLand IDE on there and have managed to get a full day of development done using only about 25-30% battery.

So yeah, whatever Apple is doing, they are doing it right. Performance without all the spyware that your work gives you makes a huge difference too.
Read replies to the tweet https://twitter.com/USAndMumbai/status/1787772852084830251
PG&E (California's electric utility) books over $2 billion a year in profit - the equivalent of a $110 charge per month on every California household's bill at their 12.5% profit margin. Despite that, they claim insolvency and fight payouts to fire-injured taxpayers
Regardless of what you can't tell, he's absolutely right regarding Apple's claims: saying that a 8gb mac is as good as a 16gb non-mac is laughable.
Even repairable only buys you a few years repairability that actually makes sense. For example something similar happened to me, lost the mac mobo on a pre solder addiction model. Only thing is guess how much a used mobo is for an old mac: nearly as much as the entire old mac in working shape. It makes no sense to repair it once the computer hits a certain age between the prices of oem parts and the depreciation of computers.
I'm assuming you saw the "hut", there's a few models.

https://www.muji.com/jp/mujihut/en.html

They have a prefab house as well:

https://www.dezeen.com/2020/01/16/muji-yo-no-ie-prefabricate...
TikTok sues to challenge law forcing sale or ban
It needs a regular web browser too.
So it begins.

This will have a massive impact on the passage of the RESTRICT and GUARD Acts
I don't care about whatever you frame.
South Asia = Pakistan.

Read replies to this: https://twitter.com/USAndMumbai/status/1787772852084830251
Sorry - should have been specific in top-level comment. I was referring to this one: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/33

Basically, the --dotfiles option was not working with directories so you had to have things that look like this: lazygit/.config/lazygit and now it looks like: lazygit/dot-config/lazygit.

Really a small issue that bugged me forever - shouldn't have made it seem like it was core a problem with stow!